SEATTLE — The King County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the 61-year-old man who set himself on fire at the University of Washington campus last Thursday as In Soo Chun.
The medical examiner ruled Chun’s death a suicide Monday, four days after the former UW worker poured gasoline on himself and set himself ablaze in Red Square during the middle of the day.
Chun died after shortly after being brought to Harborview Medical Center with second- and third-degree burns.
The medical examiner said Chun died from “thermal burns involving 90 percent of total body surface area.”
Seattle police say man shot girlfriend in face
Seattle police say they have made an arrest in the Friday night shooting in a Belltown parking lot in which a woman was hit in the face and a man in the leg.
Police said they arrested a 23-year-old man Saturday when he visited the 24-year-old woman at Harborview Medical Center. They said she was his girlfriend and he shot her accidentally.
There were two other shootings Friday night in Seattle. A 16-year-old boy was killed and two more people were wounded.
Goose is cooked turning out lights in Seattle
It was a goose, with its wide wingspan, that short-circuited a main power line in Seattle.
Seattle City Light said a circuit breaker tripped about 9 a.m. Monday and the power was out for nearly an hour for about 4,000 customers in the Fremont and Wallingford neighborhoods.
City Light spokesman Peter Clarke says the goose was electrocuted.
Ephrata: Moses Lake man convicted in ‘snitch’ shooting
A Moses Lake man faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced Nov. 18 in Grant County Superior Court for trying to kill a man he called a snitch.
Miguel Solis, 24, was convicted of attempted murder, unlawful imprisonment and unlawful possession of a firearm.
Prosecutors said Solis and his brother brought a man, Raul Vasquez, from Pasco last January to the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge. Solis ordered him out of the car, called him a snitch and started shooting. The victim was wounded in the neck but was able to run away and seek help from the refuge manager.
The Columbia Basin Herald reported the brother, Jose Solis, 20, also faces charges of attempted murder and kidnapping.
Olympia: Police seek destructive Halloween marchers
Police are trying to identify vandals in the group of about 50 people in Halloween costumes who marched through downtown Olympia Friday night breaking windows.
The Olympian reported some people broke away from the main group and broke windows at a US Bank and Starbucks, causing about $8,000 in damage.
Windows also were broken in a May Day march in Olympia.
Richland: Couple donates $17.5 million to WSU
A couple who donated $17.5 million to Washington State University have had an engineering school named after them.
The Pullman-based school will be named the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering.
Gene Voiland grew up in Richland, where his father was a chemist at the national laboratory then run by General Electric. He got a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering at WSU in 1969.
Voiland, now a California resident with his wife, Linda, went on to become an engineer and CEO in the energy industry, running subsidiaries of Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil before retiring in 2007.
The university said it is the largest one-time commitment by an individual donor in its history. It said the gift will help the school hire faculty to conduct research in renewable fuels and sustainable energy.
Redmond: Woman found dead in apartment
Police say the death of a woman found in a Redmond apartment is suspicious.
Spokesman Jim Bove said that a friend found the body Monday after the woman’s father in India asked for a check on her because he hadn’t heard from her in some time.
Bove said there were signs of trauma in the apartment.
Hoquiam: Limo driver accused of giving alcohol
A limo driver accused of buying alcohol for passengers on their way to the Wishkah High School homecoming dance faces a charge of furnishing alcohol to minors.
Hoquiam Deputy Police Chief Jim Maloney said administrators intercepted the group Oct. 25 before they entered the school.
KXRO radio reported the 60-year-old limo driver told police he “got caught up in the fun the kids were having.” He’ll face charges in Hoquiam Municipal Court.
Oregon: Portions of Crater Lake close for winter
Rim Drive and the North Entrance to Crater Lake National Park have closed for the season because of snow and ice.
The south and west entrances to the park stay open year-round.
Winter season visitor services are available at Steel Visitor Information Center next to park headquarters. The center is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
The Rim Cafe and Gift Shop will remain open daily from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Ranger-guided snowshoe walks on Saturday and Sunday afternoons will begin in late November.
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